"According to Pew Research Center, the share of women ages eighteen to thirty-four that say having a successful marriage is one of the most important things in their lives rose nine percentage points since 1997--from 28 percent to 37%. The share voicing this opinion dropped, from 35 percent to 29 percent." Why?In the course of researching my new book, , I talked with men all over America about why they're avoiding marriage. A couple of generations ago, a man wasn't considered fully adult until he was married with kids. As communications professor James Macnamara reports, "by volume, 69 percent of mass media reporting and commentary on men was unfavorable, compared with just 12 percent favorable and 19 percent neutral or balanced." 2. Married men have more sex than single men, on average - but much less than men who are cohabiting with their partners outside of marriage, especially as time goes on.” Honor quickly turned to humiliation as the flustered scoutmaster whisked Ted off the stage. Seuss that he dreaded public appearances for the rest of his life.It certainly wasn’t a scene out of “Animal House,” but on the night before Easter in 1925, the local police chief caught Dartmouth College senior Ted Geisel partying with his friends and a pint of bootleg gin.Here are common problems people face when dividing assets, establishing spousal support, and determining child …[Read More...]Divorce could be one of the worst experiences of your life.member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Internet dating site She has conducted extensive research and written on the evolution and future of human sex, love, marriage, gender differences in the brain and how your personality style shapes who you are and who you love.

However, many Washington counties have given the vital records they collected to the Washington State Archives.Although both men and women lose friends after marriage, it tends to affect men's self-esteem more, perhaps because men tend to be less social in general. Because they've lost the battle for the rest of the house. Lots of men I spoke with were keenly aware of the dangers of divorce, and worried that if they were married and it went sour, the woman might take everything, including the kids.The Art of Manliness blog mourns "The Decline of Male Space," and notes that the development of suburban lifestyles, intended to bring the family together, resulted in the elimination of male spaces in the main part of the house, and the exile of men to attics, garages, basements - the least desirable part of the home. Other men were concerned that they might wind up paying child support for kids who aren't even theirs - a very real possibility in many states.After a 27th publisher rejected his first manuscript, Dr.Seuss walked dejectedly along the sidewalks of New York, planning to burn the book in his apartment incinerator.

It turns out that the problem isn't that men are immature, or lazy. But today, fathers are figures of fun more than figures of respect: The schlubby guy with the flowered diaper bag at the mall, or one of the endless array of buffoonish TV dads in sitcoms and commercials. Research even suggests that married women are more likely to gain weight than women who are cohabiting without marriage. "Those wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine." That's an old song, but it's true.